Alone Through the Roaring Forties

The Sailors Classics library introduces a new generation of readers to the best books ever written about small boats under sail Below the Cape of Good Hope and south of Australia lie the feared latitudes of the "Roaring Forties " where nonstop westerly gales push huge seas unimpeded around and around the bottom of the world. It was into this watery hell that in 1942 Vito Dumas set sail in a 31-foot ketch.